Marine diesel engine failure simulator based on thermodynamic model

The developed model is able to reproduce with confinable results the effect of a large number of typical thermodynamic failures, the behavior of the engine and the effects over several parameters measured and non-measured. Therefore, it is possible to obtain the engine response to failures without having to provoke them in real engine and also it is possible to know the symptoms of one failure before this failure becomes dangerous for the correct behavior of the engine. In addition, this paper exposes a methodology which allows to obtain a failure simulator of any marine diesel engine. This simulator is able to identify diesel engine symptoms under failure condition and build a reliable failure database for diagnosis purposes.